Shabby Chic Diamond Wedding

Hello there!

I'm just popping in with a little inspiration for The Ribbon Girl. A while back I got asked by my boss if I would make a card for her parents upcoming anniversay. I had a few delays on it due to recent life occurrences, but I managed to finish it this week so I thought that I would share it with you.

I used a die to cut the leaves from pearlerised card stock which I also used to make the base of the card.
The papers are neutral ones from a couple of Maja Design collections. I added a little stenciling with some modelling paste.

The centre piece is a chipboard piece from Scrapinec which I mounted on some oval shapes cut with MFT dies. I added some little rhinestones to the chipboard to fancy it up a bit and help it match the theme. I cut the numbers with a memory box die.

I added a little chipboard scrap to the corner.
The sentiment is computer generated and printed onto smooth ivory card. I finished the whole thing with a few extra gems for more sparkle!

I've listed the rest of the embellishments used  below which are all available from The Ribbon Girl:

French Veil Ivory
Cream Top Stitch Thread
Ivory White Magnolia Flowers
Ivory 10 mm Open Rose
Beaded Berries Ivory/Cream

15 mm Cream Satin Ribbon
Ivory Cream Lace
Flat Back Rhinstones 5 mm
Flat Back Rhinestones 2mm

I made another card with the same papers at the same time as this one, so I will share that one with you later.

Have a great Friday!

Beach Happy - Notebook

Morning all! I have a little notebook to share with you today. Remember me mentioning that I bought a Cinch? Well this is my first make with it. This was originally supposed to be for the Deep Ocean Seaside/Beach Challenge a couple of weeks  back, but I had a couple of weeks where everything just went horribly wrong and my crafting was somewhat curtailed.

But better late than never right?

 I coloured up an older Saturated Canary digi that I've had for a long time called Cali Girl. I gave her a little yellow polka dot bikini and made the pages inside the notebook yellow too to match.

Colours from memory are I think:
Vintage Photo. Antique Linen, Walnut Stain, Squeezed Lemonade, Picked Rasberry

The papers are various scraps of mostly older Maja design ones, and I made a little scene with some dies. I tried to keep stuff fairly flat as this was a notebook, and just finished off with a few enamel dots and a couple of Make it Crafty's fabulous chipboard words.  I inked the bottom and top pieces of chipboard in 2 different colour pink inks. The top one has a shimmery sheen to it.

I love how simple the Cinch made this to do and I will definitely be making some more in the future!

Bye for now,

Fairy Fiona

It's time for the August release at Whimsy Stamps....hasn't that come around fast, I can't believe the speed at which the year is going by.

Monday saw the start of the Whimsy August 2016 Release Party over in our 

Whimsy Stamps and Inspirations Facebook group.

The Whimsy DT will be sharing sneak peeks at the new products releasing today, so pop across and join us for games, fun, and a chance to win Whimsy prizes.

To join our release party event, just pop over to the Whimsy group any time during the week from Monday, August 8th through Friday, August 12th.

The August release is full of wonderful new images I was really torn between what to colour up first.

In the end I decided to go with a fairy, (always a good choice right?) and I decided that she needed pink hair because......well because why not? 

If I was a fairy I would totally have pink hair....or maybe violet..or aqua...

Alright enough with the daydreaming, let's see the card. This is Fairy Fiona from the Art by Mi Ran collection.

I decided that her pink hair would look lovely with Maja Design's Enjoying Outdoors papers. Yes that's right, I broke my own golden rule and started colouring her before I chose my papers, but honestly, I did know that I had papers which would match.

I glittered her wings with Glamour Dust, but I burnished a lot of it off with my fingertip, because I wanted the subtle colour of her wings to show thorough the sparkle.  Of course that means it doesn't show up so well on camera...can't win them all I guess.

Distress Ink markers used were:

Vintage Photo, Worn Lipstick, Picked Raspberry, Milled Lavender, Blueprint Sketch, Shabby Shutters.

That's all from me today but I'll have more inspiration from the new release later in the week.

Enjoy your day!

Whimsy Stamps June Release Day 3 - Summer Buttercup

Wheeee!! It's Friday!!

It's the final day of the new June Release from Whimsy Stamps.

My goodness it's been a busy week at work, and the heat.....well by the time I've made the journey home I feel like a deflated  tyre, so I haven't gotten any crafting done this week. Luckily I finished my contributions to the June Release last weekend.

Anyway, this is Summer Buttercup from Whimsy's Little Cottage Cuties collection by Elisabeth Bell.

She's such a little sweetie with her adorable bunny, that I just had to make a pretty card to do her  justice.

I used some of my favourite Maja Design Papers from the Coffee in the Arbour collection and coloured her with my Distress Ink markers to match.

I used lots of goodies from The Ribbon Girl and you can also buy the 6 x 6 version of these papers there too.

Don't forget to pop across to the blog to see the rest of the gorgeous makes from my Teamies. You can enter your name for the chance to win a $25 voucher from the store too!

This card is for sale in my Etsy store, click on the icon below to got there.

That's all from me today, but I'll see you again here soon.

Wee Stamps - Iris

Hello! It's quite a mixed up sort of week for me this week, not helped by our beautiful British weather....yup...sunshine and hailstorms lol. There's a reason we Brits are eccentric, we like to match our surroundings lol.

Anyhooooooo........on with my share for today and like many of my other recent cards, you may have already seen this one in the Whimsy Stamps online magazine. If you haven't already done so, do check it out, it's chock full of inspiration and it's free!

This is a slightly older stamp from Whimsy's Wee Stamps collection, she's called Iris, isn't she lovely?
 I decided to colour her in shades of grey to complement these rather fabulous butterflies from Kay Fatula's shop. I also knew I wanted to give her a blush of colour just to add a little interest and I had these beautiful Maja papers in my stash that just went perfectly. 

The sentiment is from Whimsy Stamps too, it's from the Fairy Tale Dreams set, this set is retiring, so grab it while you can!

I finished off with some glamour dust, some Prima bling, and the following gorgeous flowers from The Ribbon Girl

32 mm Francesca Black Lace
Siam Pink Seam Binding
Cheesecloth
20 mm Pale Pink Open Rose
Chrysanth White Kurt and Gort
Pink Sweetheart Blossom
White Sweetheart Blossom
Starburst Stamen White
Oval Clear Diamante Embellishment

I hope you like it, TTFN! :) xx

Lee Holland - Elephant with Flower for Deep Ocean Challenge

Hi everyone! I hope your week is going well.
Welcome to a new challenge over at Deep Ocean Challenge, this time we would like to see your makes with Dots and/or Stripes. Easy right? Your project can be anything, it just needs to have spots or stripes (or both) visible somewhere on your make.

I used both for mine, I have striped design paper and spotty ribbon, plus some added 'extra' with these enamel dots.

For my card today (it's CAS again, don't faint!), I used this adorable Lee Holland image from Whimsy Stamps, isn't he adorable?

I just love colouring up these cute animals in unusual colours, and I chose lilac (my fav as your know) and pink today and made his huge flower a lovely bright pink. I have to admit that for once I coloured the image before picking out my papers, but that's quite rare for me.
He's coloured with distress ink markers in the following colours:

Shaded Lilac, Spun Sugar, Victorian Velvet, Picked Raspberry and Pumice Stone. (I'm afraid I can't remember which green I used, it may have been Shabby Shutters).

I stamped out my sentiment on some white card and then cut it into sections and popped them up on some foam tape. This was initially because I couldn't get the sentiment to fit on the frame as it was, without it being partially obscured by the Ellie, but I rather like the look of how it turned out.

We would love to see you join in with our challenge,

you can win this great prize

A €10 Gift Certificate to Craft Heaven Shop


thank you Tina Makuc for sponsoring us!

I'm entering my card into the following challenges:
Chocolate, coffee and cards - Stripes and Polka Dots
Alphabet Challenge - D is for Dots


Don't forget to pop across to the blog to check out the rest of the DT inspiration :) xx

Art by MiRan - Celebrating Your Day

Hi everyone! I hope you're all having a wonderful start to your weekend.
I'm currently editing my next Distress Ink Tutorial, 'Adding Texture and Dimension to Hair' so I should have that ready for you this weekend, but in the meantime I have a new card to share with you today made with some lovely embellishments from The Ribbon Girl.

This cutie is called Celebrating Your Day. She's a digi from Art by MiRan and you can find her here.

I coloured her with my distress ink markers in bright and happy colours to match this lovely paper from Maja Design. Love her with pink hair!



Speaking of Maja Design, have you seen that The Ribbon Girl have started stocking their papers? Oh my goodness, now I can get my papers when I order my flower, ribbon, lace, charms, pearls etc. I just love being able to get all my pretties in one place!

This card actually uses 12 x 12 papers from the Coffee in the Arbour collection, because I still have these in my stash, but you can buy the 6 x 6 papers from the shop, and there's not much difference, except the patterns are a little smaller which actually suits cards a bit better, so I have linked the collection in the shop below for you.

I layered her with a few die cuts and used the left over squares from the view finder die cut to make these little scrabble tiles that read happy. I used some beautiful embellishments (listed below) from The Ribbon Girl to finish off my card.

Pink 20 mm Open Rose

Apple Blossom Mixed Pastels

Tulip Flowers Baby Pink

Rose Leaves

38 mm Charlotte Elizabeth Vintage Style Lace

Deep Pink 10 mm Velvet Ric Rac

23 mm Fuchsia Pink/White Spot Organza Ribbon 
Maja Design Coffee in the Arbour Paper Stack

That's all from me today but I'll be back with you soon.

Happy crafting! :) xx

Divine Tilda - New Challenge at Deep Ocean Challenge

Hello to my lovely followers old and new. I hope this week is treating you well. 

We have a new challenge up over at Deep Ocean Challenge Blog, and this time the theme is 

Lovely Lace.

Super easy right?

Today I've pulled out one of my Magnolia stamps, its been a while since I coloured one up. 

This is Divine Tilda, and as well as using lace on my card, I thought that her little dress and hair bows looked kind of lacy too.

I coloured her with my distress ink markers to match this lush paper from the Maja Design 

'Enjoying Outdoors' Collection. Lot's of lovely purples and magentas in this collection.

I used the following colours:

Vintage Photo, Victorian Velvet, Antique Linen, Shaded Lilac, Dusty Concord & Walnut Stain.

I added lashings of Wink of Stella to her dress and hair bows but I just could not get the camera to pick up the sparkle.

I added a couple of beautiful butterflies from Karla's Kreative Korner, love these!

and lots of lovely embellies from the Ribbon Girl.

Cheesecloth

15 mm Cream Satin Ribbon

10 mm Ivory Double Row Pearl Trim

Ophelia Ivory Tulle Lace

Beaded Berries Lilac/Purple/White

Ivory White Magnolia Flowers

Cherry Blossom Lilac/White 2 Tone

Purple/Violet Rolled Ribbon Roses

Small Beaded Berries Lilac

I do hope you can join in with our challenge, and don't forget to stop by the blog for the rest of the fab makes from the team!

Have a great week! :) xx

Wee Stamps - Wee One. New Challenge at The Ribbon Girls

Good Morning! I hope you're all having a great weekend :)  Mine has been filled with crafting and for those of you waiting on my video on colouring hair with distress inks, I have filmed it, but it took almost all day yesterday to upload (we have sloooooow internet where I live and I was so tired I forgot to upload overnight), so I'm still in the process of editing it. It should be ready to share soon

But enough of videos and on to my post for this morning. It's that time of month for a new 'Any Image' challenge over at The Ribbon Girls Blog, and as always it's anything goes. For my inspiration I'm sharing this super sweet baby card that I made for a special friend who's also super sweet. She's just given birth to a little girl, so I wanted to make a special baby girl card for her.

This wonderful stamp  called Wee One from Whimsy's Wee Stamps collection, drawn by the wonderful Sylvia Zet was just the thing, and I coloured her as usual with my distress ink markers.

I really like the way the finished card looks, and I hope she does too!

I used the following colours:
Vintage Photo, Spun Sugar, Victorian Velvet, Antique Linen, Walnut Stain, Hickory Smoke, Black Soot.
I used lashings of Wink of Stella on the frills of the pram, but as usual I could not get it to show on the photographs, no matter how I adjusted my lights.

The pretty papers are from Maja Design, I used Go Kreate dies for my card base and Die-namics dies to frame my image. The rocking horse die is from La-La Land Crafts. I edged all my papers with Walnut Stain distress ink.

I kept the decoration on the inside of the card very simple, just echoing the patterns and shapes from the front

I used the following embellishments from The Ribbon Girl

Baby Pram Charm
Cheesecloth
Pale Pink 20 mm Open Rose
Ivory 10 mm Open Rose
White Ruffle Edge Sheer Ribbon
Charlotte Elizabeth White Lace
Hip Rose Bud White 
Small White Lily
30 mm Pale Pink Trellis Rose
Chrysanth White K & G
Sweetheart Blossom Baby Pink & White
Pink Ruffle Edge Sheer Ribbon
Daisy Pale Pink
Small Pale Pink Lily
White Heart Pin
Pink Heart Pin

I hope you can join in with our challenge, there's 3, yes 3! prizes up for grabs so it's really worth it.

First prize:  £10 voucher for LOTV

Second prize:  £10 voucher for The Ribbon Girl

Third prize:  Mystery prize from Marianne Designs

Don't forget to check out the rest of the team's awesome makes on the blog, I hope to see your's there too!

That's all from me but I'll be back later with something a little different :) xx

Wee Stamps - Sweetie - Inspirational Post for The Ribbon Girl

Morning everyone! Hope you are doing well. It's been very cold here recently, in fact when I finally got home from work last night, it was so cold my hands just couldn't craft....all my plans were completely awry. Luckily I'd finished this little cutie a couple of days ago.

This is Sweetie, one of Whimsy Stamps' new stamps from their Wee collection by Sylvia Zet. I just love Sylvia's sweet images and this one is no exception.

I coloured her with my distress ink markers on Langton hot press water colour paper.

Vintage Photo, Spun Sugar, Victorian Velvet, Peacock Feathers, Tumbled Glass, Walnut Stain, Crushed Olive mixed with Bundled Sage, Hickory Smoke.

I you would like to see how I colour with Distress Ink markers, I've started a series of tutorials on my YouTube channel here. I gave her dress and wings a generous coating of Wink of Stella, but it's very hard to pick up on camera, you can just see some of it on the above close up shot.

I coloured her to match these lovely Maja Design papers from my stash.

I finished my cards with the following gorgeous embellishments from The Ribbon Girl.

Ophelia Lace

Vintage Pink Wild Roses

20 mm Pale Pink Open Roses

Sweetheart Blossom White

Beaded Berries Ivory/Cream

Pink Beaded Crystal Leaves

Rose Petal Pink Vintage Style Seam Binding

Cheesecloth

Shabby Pink Ruffled Ribbon

6 mm Ivory Flat Back Pearls

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps and more - Anything Goes
7 Kids College Fund - Anything Goes - Top 3
Magnolia-licious Tuesday Challenge - Bingo (Pearls, Lace, Ribbon

Well that's all from me today, I do hope you liked my card, I have to admit that I'm really rather chuffed with it! :) xx

Whimsy Stamps February 2016 Release Day 2

Hi everyone and welcome to day 2 of Whimsy Stamps' February release.

Today I'm showcasing one of the new images drawn by the talented Mi Ran Jung for Whimsy's
Art by MiRan Collection.

This lovely is called Calantha, isn't she gorgeous?
I paired her with some sumptuous papers from Maja Design's Enjoying Outdoors collection.

I coloured her with my distress inks.
Colours used:
Vintage Photo, Antique Linen, Walnut Stain, Shaded Lilac, Seedless Preserves, Picked Raspberry, Forest Moss.

I gave her a bit of a muted slightly vintage look. Her wings and scarf are liberally brushed with my new Wink of Stella brush pen and look so sparkly and shimmery in real life, but as usual it doesn't show up in the photos....shame. I chose a darker colour for the background to make it more of a twilight sky.

I kept the embellishments fairly simple, satin ribbon,,  pearl and diamante embellishment , cherry blossoms, and some self adhesive pearls.  I decorated the inside with papers and shapes to coordinate with the front.

Do you remember these sweet images drawn by Sylvia that I used at Christmas Time?

Jenny

and 

Little Helper

Both of these adorable images are now available in rubber from Whimsy Stamps as part of their Wee Stamps Collection.

How cool is that?

Well that's all from me today, don't forget to drop by the Whimsy blog to see the rest of the teams makes with the new stamps.

See you soon! :) xx

Art by Mi Ran - Angel of Hearts

Hi everyone, this is a scheduled post as it's my birthday today, so obviously I'm not blogging lol.

We have new challenge over at Deep Ocean Challenge Blog and this time it's

'Hearts'

Just right for Valentine's week no?

I fell in love with this digi called Angel of Hearts from Art by Mi Ran a while ago and I was so pleased to have the opportunity to use it. It was an absolute joy to colour! I printed her out fairly large as I really wanted the focus of the card to be her, and coloured her with my Distress Ink markers.

This image took me around 2 hours to colour as I really took my time with her as I wanted her to be perfect and I'm really pleased with the result. I fussy cut her out and popped her up on some foam tape. I did have to lose one small heart that wasn't 'attached' to th eimage, I originally meant to cut that separately and add it back on the card, but it want missing somewhere, so I hope Mi Ran doesn't mind.

DI Colours used:

Vintage Photo, Antique Linen. Walnut Stain, Worn Lipstick, Picked Raspberry, Spun Sugar, Victorian Velvet, Aged Mahogany, Fired Brick, 

I knew I wanted my card to echo the image, with lots of hearts, so I decided to use 2 sets of nesties dies that I've owned for a few years now, hearts and scalloped hearts. I cut the scalloped hearts from some plain coloured card stock in a few different shades to match my chosen design paper.

I used an old 6 x 6 Whimsy paper pack Romance from my drawer, it's been in there a long while, I'm a bit of a paper hoarder lol. I wanted to use as many of the designs as I could, so the different size hearts were great for that. 

To round off the design I used the Scripted Love Word Die from Whimsy Stamps. I cut this out 3 times in grey card stock, and glued them one on top of the other so that it resembled chipboard in thickness, covered it in glitter and placed it in the lower corner of my card.

I kept embellishment to a minimum as the card was already quite 'busy', so no lace, ribbon or flowers today, just a few enamel dots and some Tim Holtz Distress Glitter Dust in Vintage Platinum (love that colour!) on the wings and die cut word. As usual the sparkle doesn't show up well on camera, but I can tell you it looks delicious in the flesh.

I do hope you can join us, there is a lovely prize to be won from our sponsor, and don't forget to check out the stunning makes from the rest of the team.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Artistic Inspirations - Anything Goes/Twist of Valentine Design Team Favourite
Craft Your Passion - #298 Anything Goes
Crafty Cardmakers - Love, Love, Love Top 5
Dream Valley Challenges - Valentine's Day
Get Creative Challenges - Must Include Hearts
Where the Heart is - Love
Live & Love Crafts - Love is in the Air

I'll be back tomorrow with the first of my projects for Whimsy's February release, bye for now! :) xx